1996-10-05 - Re: Can we kill single DES?

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: bkmarsh@feist.com (Bruce M.)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-10-05 00:44:32 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 08:44:32 +0800

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 08:44:32 +0800
To: bkmarsh@feist.com (Bruce M.)
Subject: Re: Can we kill single DES?
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DB only has 64 Pentiums.  There are lots of small businesses with more
compute power.  Much more useful to sell IBM on the idea of a
Christmas Tree screen saver. :)

Adam

Bruce M. wrote:

| > A Linux port (Pentium) would be *very* good - lots of Linux people tend to by
| > pro-cpunk.  Ditto for OS/2.   And who knows, if you hyped the business
| > aspects enough you might even find IBM or some other large corp willing to
| > donate some time on large system.
| 
|     Maybe Deep Blue gets bored in between its chess matches. :)



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